Our Next Event
Environmental detective Vivian Krause will be presenting on the funding of environmental groups in Canada.
March 19, 2012, 7 PM
Library & Archives Canada
395 Wellington
Ottawa, Ontario
Admission: $15 (students $10)
Tickets for our evening with Vivian Krause are now on sale at four locations in Ottawa: Compact Music (785 Bank, 190 Bank), Collected Works (1242 Wellington) and Ottawa Festivals (47 William). Tickets are $15 ($10 for students).
From Vivian's blog: Rethinking Campaigns
"According to my preliminary calculations, since 2000 USA foundations have poured at least $300 million into the environmental movement in Canada. Its time to ask why. The David Suzuki Foundation alone has been paid at least $10 million by American foundations over the past decade. Why are American foundations spending so much money in Canada instead of in their own country or in other countries around the world that are far more needy than Canada?"
You can go to her blog at http://fairquestions.typepad.com/rethink_campaigns.
You can also catch Vivian regularly on Ezra Levant's show on Sun News.
How to order our Documentary on the CBC
"This Hour Could Have 10,000 Minutes: The Biases of the CBC" covers CBC bias against Israel and against conservatives.
Included on the documentary are my opening comments from our event at the 2nd Annual Free Thinking Film Festival on November 13, 2011, the documentary (49 minutes) and our panel discussion about the film.
Included on the panel are Brian Lilley from Sun News, Mike Fegelman from HonestReporting Canada, Stephen Taylor from the National Citizens Coalition, Eric Duhaime from Le Journal de Montreal, and David Krayden from the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies.
To order our DVD, please send us a cheque for $22 (HST included) and $2 for postage to The Free Thinking Film Society, 39 Birch Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1K 3G5.
You can also purchase the DVD through Paypal by going to this link.
We also have a bonus DVD of extra clips about the CBC that will be sent out to anybody donating $50 or more to the Free Thinking Film Society.
Dates Are Set for the 3rd Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2012
The 3rd Annual Free Thinking Film Festival will take place between November 2-4, 2012 at the Library & Archives Canada in Ottawa. Full
details of the lineup will be announced right after Labour Day in September.
Thank You Very Much!
Wow! What a blast! The 2nd Annual Free Thinking Film Festival was a huge success. I hope you all had a great time.
Here are some of the highlights of the festival:
- After the screening of "The Power of the Powerless", a woman showed us her snapshots from the Prague Spring of 1968 with the Soviet tanks in the streets. She was really moved by the film.
- Nice crowd for "The 10 Conditions of Love" about the struggle of the Uyghur people - my friend Rukiye, one of the leaders of the Canadian Uyghur community was in tears after the film.
- People loved our documentary on the CBC - with applause for the clip of Ayaan Hirsi Ali lecturing host Avi Lewis on freedom.
- Great debate between Jack Granatstein and Michael Byers on the opening night.
- Irwin Cotler delivering a powering speech after the film "Unmasked: Judeophobia and the Threat to Civilization."
- Producer Brooke Goldstein captivating a whole room after the showing of her film, "The Making of a Martyr".
- Rev. Majed El Shafie really moving a crowd after his film "Freedom Fighter".
This Hour Could Have 10,000 Minutes: The Biases of the CBC
We are now putting our documentary along with the panel discussion and some bonus clips onto one DVD. Stay tuned for ordering details.
The 3rd Annual Free Thinking Film Festival
Next year's festival will run between November 2 - 4, 2012. Expect more hard-hitting films, panel discussions and debates.
Fred Litwin, President
Free Thinking Film Society
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